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Alternative Energy Demystified: a Self-Teaching Guide by Stan Gibilisco
This book shines light on the various energy sources and technologies available today. It begins by covering a wide range of heat sources, including wood, corn, coal, oil, gas, electricity and solar heat. This guide explains the technical basics of many different forms of energy and gives a thorough overview of the various sources of energy. |
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Alternative Energy: political, economic, and social feasibility by Christopher Simon.
Systematic approaches to various alternative sources of energy, discussing in simple terms the current state of public policy, energy technology and the political, economic, and social feasibility of the alternative energy. Perfect for less technically-minded participants to help choose the energy future for their community. |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life by Barbara Kingsolver
With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family describe their move to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. A passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and locally-made food the center of the American diet. |
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Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean-Energy Economy by Jay Inslee
The author, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, calls for a revolution in how we produce and consume energy, a revolution that will transform our economy with new technologies, reinvest in our communities, and create millions of new "green collar" jobs. |
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Architecture: nature by Philip Jodidio
Examine the relationship between nature and architecture: nature as inspiration; imitating and mimicking natural patterns; landscape design; ecologically sensitive structures, and ways the natural world has inspired architects.
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Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge by Kirstin Dow
Recent events demonstrate the price of a changing climate as heat waves, droughts, and flooding cause deaths among vulnerable populations, destroy livelihoods, drive people from their homes and create millions of environmental refugees. This book gives shape and meaning to the key issues and debates around climate change. |
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Atlas of Global Development: a Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Challenges
This book vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today. Social, economic, and environmental issues that face the planet are presented by easy-to read, colorful world maps, tables, graphs, text and photographs. The book includes country comparisons of social indicators like life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population, growth, poverty and energy efficiency. |
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Beginner’s Guide to Natural Living by Larry Brown
Learn why it’s a good idea to shop at local farmer’s markets, local natural food stores, or sustainable-product chains like Whole Foods and Wild Oats, and the health advantages of natural living. |
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Be the Change you Want to See in the World: 365 Things you can do for Yourself and Your Planet by Julie Fisher-McGarry
Organized by month, the author includes tips on living green, such as where to purchase organic and fair trade products, how to unplug from the grid, and how to nourish the earth and create a sustainable lifestyle. |
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Better World Handbook: small changes that make a big difference by Ellis Jones
Learn about the global challenges we face, solutions to those challenges, and a wide range of follow-up resources that cover everything from fair trade coffee to alternative news sources to hybrid cars.
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Better World Shopping Guide: every dollar makes a difference by Ellis Jones
A comprehensive, up-to-date set of rankings on the social and environmental responsibility of businesses and corporations. Use this book to guide your choices and voice your concerns about creating a better environment by purchasing wisely.
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Beyond Oil: the View from Hubbert’s Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
This book explains why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and also how challenging it can be to cope with what comes next. |
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Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy by Greg Pahl
Get practical advice on bio-based fuel. The author of this book reviews the history of the biofuels industry and assesses its recent successes and current shortcomings. |
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Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists are fueling the Climate Crisis— and what we can do to Avert Disaster by Ross Gelbspan.
The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, exposes the forces that perpetuate the crisis of global warming- with a prescription for saving the planet. |
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Bottomless Well: the Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy by Peter W. Huber.
This book explains why energy is not scarce, why the quality of energy is more important than quantity, and why "waste" of energy is both necessary and desirable. |
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Building Green: a complete how-to guide to alternative building methods: earth, plaster, straw bale, cordwood, cob, living roofs by Clarke Snell.
With more than 1,200 how-to photos, this book takes you through the construction of a small building that incorporates a wide spectrum of alternative techniques and materials to create an attractive and environmentally responsible alternative or green home. |
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Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots by Kevin Danaher.
This book shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. |
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Building with Vision: optimizing and finding alternatives to wood by Dan Imhoff.
Sustainable building, by reusing and substituting recycled products for wood with alternative materials: adobe, bamboo, or compressed soil blocks. Includes exteriors, insulation, building methods, recycled materials, and surface and finish materials.
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Bush Verses the Environment by Robert S. Devine.
The author, a veteran journalist, examines the environmental policies of the Bush administration. This book shows how the White House is quietly undermining the entire system of environmental safeguards that has developed over the past 30 years. |
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The Business Guide to Sustainability: practical strategies and tools for organizations by Darcy Hitchcock.
Demystify 'sustainability' and learn sustainable frameworks and practices, incorporating them into daily work for both reduced environmental impacts and real cash savings.
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Carbon Buster’s Home Energy Handbook: slowing climate change and saving money by Godo Stoyke.
Review this detailed carbon accounting of a family's carbon emissions and learn how to reduce them, systematically analyzing energy costs and evaluating which measures yield the highest returns for the environment and the pocketbook. |
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Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change by Henrik Svensmark.
In this book, you’ll learn about the theory that sub-atomic particles from exploded stars have more impact on the climate than manmade CO2. |
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Citizen-powered Energy Handbook: community solutions to a global crisis by Greg Pahl.
Explore successful renewable energy technologies and strategies that can be adopted by individuals and communities, bringing people together to create collective energy security for a neighborhood or town while strengthening local economies.
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The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity by Ron Pernick.
By highlighting eight major clean-tech sectors, this book uncovers how investors, entrepreneurs, and individuals can profit from the next wave of technological innovation. |
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Cob Builders Handbook: you can hand-sculpt your own home by Becky Bee.
One-third of the world's population lives in homes made of unbaked earth, including 50,000 still in use in England today, most built in the 18th and 19th Centuries. This building technique has stood the test of time. It is also, unfortunately, one of the many environmentally friendly techniques nearly lost.
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Complete Guide to Reducing Energy Costs by Consumer Reports.
Slash your energy bills with expert, money-saving tips and easy-to-follow advice on home improvement, appliances, and autos. |
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Complete Idiot’s Guide to Green Living by Trish Riley.
This book provides an overview of global warming and environmental degradation of air, water, and soil; what sustainable living is and how to do it; how to cut down on carbon output with alternative cars and fuels; and environmentally friendly home and lawn care products. |
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Complete Organic Pregnancy by Deirdre Dolan. ISBN: 0060887451; ISBN13 – 9780060887452.
The authors address how to minimize exposure to the invisible toxins that surround us in everything from food, cleaning products and cosmetics to furniture, rugs, air and water. |
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Composting: An Easy Household Guide by Nicky Scott. ISBN: 1933392746; ISBN13 – 9781933392745
This book contains everything you need to know about composting, from the different containers available, to what to put in them and to how to use the resulting compost. |
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Complete Tightwad Gazette: promoting thrift as a viable alternative lifestyle by Amy Dacyczyn.
Learn how to save money and resources with this compilation of sensible advice, hints, recipes, tips, tricks, and strategies. |
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Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices by Warren Leon and Michael Brower.
A clear, practical, and rational overview of the choices you can make that will have a large positive impact on the environment--and other fears you can cross off your list.
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg.
This author argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world's temperature. |
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The Country in the City: the greening of the San Francisco Bay Area by Richard Walker.
Learn how the Bay Area got its green grove in this positive political and environmental story about the groups who helped establish and defend the many greenbelts around San Francisco from the 19th Century to the present.
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough.
This book offers a new approach to the concept of recycling. The authors propose that products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new. |
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The Creation: an appeal to save life on earth by Edward O. Wilson.
Learn about the survival of life on this planet, which according to the author is more endangered than ever before. The author, drawing on his own personal experiences as a world-leading biologist, prophesies that at least half the species of plants and animals on Earth could either be gone or fated for early extinction by the end of the century. |
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Creative Recycling in Embroidery by Val Holmes.
Recycling is one of the hottest new trends in embroidery. Learn the techniques of both hand and machine embroidery using different types of salvaged material—from fabric, paper, dried flowers, and tree bark, to metal waste, plastic, broken jewelry, and personal souvenirs. |
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Drawing Lines in the Forest: creating wilderness areas in the Pacific Northwest by Kevin Marsh.
This book looks at the process of establishing boundaries around wild lands. It offers insights that are relevant to all regions of the United States, and that may change how we think of the wilderness and also American land conservation in general.
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The Drinking Water Book: how to eliminate harmful toxins from your water by Colin Ingram.
A level-headed look at the serious issues surrounding America's drinking water supply, with unbiased reporting on what's in your water and how to ensure the water you drink is safe. Learn the latest scientific research, different kinds of filters and bottled waters, and ratings for specific products on the market. |
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore.
This book, first published in 1992, helped place the environment on the national agenda. It focuses on the threats that everyday choices pose to our climate, water, soil, and diversity of plant and animal life. |
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Earth under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World by Gary Braasch.
In 1999 the author, a photojournalist, began a journey around the world to observe and document environmental changes resulting from the warming of our planet. In this book, he brings us along to witness first hand what he saw as he crossed both the Antarctic and Arctic Circles, trekked in the Andes, and followed scientists into the field on four continents. |
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Eco Design: the sourcebook by Alastair Fuad-Luke.
More than 700 useful and beautiful consumer products that make a minimal impact on the earth, with detailed, illustrated entries of products and an extensive reference section with new and hybrid materials, manufacturers, design studios, and green organizations.
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The Eco Guide to Careers that Make a Difference by Environmental Careers Organization.
This guide to environmental careers takes an issue-oriented approach, identifying 19 environmental, conservation, and sustainable development concerns, featuring interviews with specialists, advice for people who want to get involved, and what resources are available for those who want to learn more.
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EcoNest: creating sustainable sanctuaries of clay, straw and timber by Paula Baker-Laporte.
An introduction to accessible alternative energy sources, including solar panels, wind generators, hydrogen fuel cells, wood, hydroelectric, and more. Great for anyone who gets electricity and heat from traditional oil-burning sources, but wants to be free of fossil-fuels.
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Ecovillages: new frontiers for sustainability by Jonathan Dawson.
Ecovillages are local communities that aim to minimize their ecological impact but maximize human well-being and happiness, and they are springing up all over the world. Learn about the ecovillage movement and the Global Ecovillage Network.
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Elements of Organic Gardening: Highgrove, Clarence House, Birkhall by Charles, Prince of Wales
This book is a practical guide to organic gardening as practiced at Highgrove and the Prince of Wales' two other gardens. The Prince explains his techniques for maintaining healthy soil, planting varieties and sustaining an ecosystem in harmony with nature. |
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Empty Ocean: Plundering the World’s Marine Life by Richard Ellis
This book gives a compelling view of the damage we have caused to life in the sea and what we can do about it. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, the author introduces us to the many forms of sea life that humans have fished, hunted, and collected over the centuries, leaving the once-teeming ocean greatly depleted. |
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Environmental Disasters, Natural Recovery and Human Responses by Roger del Moral
This book provides a comprehensive summary of the diverse ways in which nature disrupts humanity and how humans have coped. |
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Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy by Hazel Henderson
This book takes an inside look at the green economy that already exists and is growing by leaps and bounds. |
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The Everything Green Living Book by Diane Gow McDilda
Learn easy ways to conserve energy, protect your family’s health and help save the environment. |
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Experimental Eco Design: architecture/fashion/product by Cara Brower
Designers embrace environmentally sound working practices and techniques. An extensive reference section included sources of "green" materials, manufacturers, design studios, and organizations for environmentally considerate design. |
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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products – Who’s at Risk and What’s at Stake for American Power by Mark Schapiro
Exploring recent changes in the European Union - where strict consumer safety regulations have demanded manufacturing safer products – the author shows that short of strong government intervention, the U.S. will lose whatever claim it has to commercial supremacy. |
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The Farmers’ Market Book: growing food, cultivating community by Jennifer Meta Robinson
Learn about the market in Bloomington, Indiana, and the social, ecological, and economic power of farmers' markets.
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Feeding the Fire: The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind’s Energy Addiction by Mark Eberhart.
The author examines the history of energy, and reveals how we became energy-dependent creatures. |
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Field Guide to Buying Organic by Luddene Perry
This book provides a self-test that allows you to determine your current organic shopping habits and the type of organic shopper you want to become. It serves a primer on organic food standards, labels and seals. |
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: man, nature and climate change by Elizabeth Kolbert.
View every angle of global warming through interviews with researchers and environmentalists. Drop the politics and learn the science and the studies, and the frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations through personal tales of those who are being affected most--the people who make their homes near the poles and are watching their worlds disappear. |
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Food Not Lawns: how to turn your yard into a garden and your neighborhoods into a community by H.C. Flores.
Follow this nine-step plan to build fertile soil, raise your own food, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in your own "paradise garden"—on a tiny city plot or a half acre of lawn—for a stronger, healthier neighborhood.
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Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible Landscape by Robert Hart
Based on the model of a natural woodland, a forest garden incorporates a wide variety of useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, perennial herbs, and vegetables. Practical features of the book include design guidelines for creating your own perennial food-producing garden, lists of recommended plants and varieties keyed to different climates. |
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Freedom from Oil: How the Next President can End the United States’ Oil Addiction by David Sandalow
The author explores what would happen if the next President made breaking the United States' addiction to oil a top priority. |
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From Windmills to Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Discovering Alternative Energy by Sally Morgan
This book discusses alternatives to traditional energy sources that contribute to global warming. |
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Gaiam Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook: Your Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living by John Schaeffer
This fully updated, 30th Anniversary edition book, is the ultimate resource on renewable energy, sustainable living, alternative construction, green building, homesteading, off-the-grid living and alternative transportation.
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Gaia’s Garden: a guide to home-scale permaculture by Toby Hemenway
Organic garden design, with illustrations, information about building ecosystems, a designer's checklist, plants for attracting wildlife, and helpful resources.
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Gardening for the Future of the Earth by Howard-Yana Shapiro
Learn the techniques of the great innovators of organic gardening, to create a flourishing plot that also helps to renew and preserve the earth's resources.
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Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet by Christopher Spence
Global warming has been described as the biggest environmental threat facing humanity. People fear potentially catastrophic consequences, but there has been a disturbing lack of understanding about global warming and what can be done about it- until now. This book breaks through the jargon, and offers both a clear description of the problem and solutions. |
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Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change by Paul Brown.
This author discusses technologies and renewable energy solutions that can reduce our impact on global warming. |
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Good Green Kitchens: the ultimate resource for creating a beautiful, healthy, eco-friendly kitchen by Jennifer Roberts
In-depth information for selecting eco-friendly designed kitchen materials and products, including an extensive resource list.
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Got Sun? Go Solar: Get Free Renewable Energy to Power your Grid-tied Home by Rex A. Ewing
This book explains to grid-connected homeowners how to use free energy from the sun and wind to reduce or even eliminate electric bills. With rebates and incentives from most states, installing a home system is economically viable and environmentally responsible. |
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Green Babies, Sage Moms: The Ultimate Guide to Raising your Organic Baby by Lynda Fassa.
This book is a guide for new mothers on how to raise a “green” family simply and inexpensively. |
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The Green Belt Movement: sharing the approach and the experience by Wangari Maathai
The Green Belt Movement is an internationally acclaimed tree-planting movement founded and run by and for Kenyans. They have planted millions of trees throughout East Africa to provide fuel and food, stop soil erosion and environmental degradation. An outstanding indigenous movement working to influence Africa's future.
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Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time by Elizabeth Rogers.
This guide offers hundreds of simple steps readers can take to help save the Earth and pinpoints the smallest changes that have the biggest impact. |
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Green Building Products: the GreenSpec guide to residential building materials edited by Alex Wilson
2nd ed.
Descriptions and manufacturer contact information for nearly 1,600 environmentally preferable products and materials for all phases of residential construction, from site work to flooring to renewable energy. Includes key environmental considerations and product selection.
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Green Business Directory, 2001: consumer guide to environmentally sound businesses by King County Dept. of Natural Resources, 2001.
Consumer guide to environmentally sound businesses. |
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Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style by Christie Matheson
This book offers dozens of author-tested, earth-friendly ideas that help you be chic while saving the planet. |
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Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning your Home by Linda Mason
This book is a step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using nontoxic, eco-friendly products. It breaks environmentally conscious cleaning into simple principles and easily mastered techniques. |
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Green by Design: creating a home for sustainable living by Angela Dean
Learn how to think about building sustainable homes through this hands-on guide to creating a sustainable home, with floor plans and full-color photographs of more than a dozen successful green homes.
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Green Gardener’s Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Protect & Preserve our Planet by Joe Lamp’l.
With a platform that encourages earth-friendly gardening, the author offers tips that save water, conserve resources and promote healthy and safe plant growth. |
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The “Green” Gardener: Working with Nature, Not Against It by Brenda Little
This illustrated manual includes easy-to-follow information on such tasks as improving the soil, saving water, mulching, and creating green gardens. |
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Green Homes by Sergi Duran. ISBN: 0061348260; ISBN13 – 9780061348266
Filled cover to cover with full-color photographs, architectural plans, and detailed drawings, this book features more than 20 projects, which explore various aspects of green design. |
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Green House: new directions in sustainable architecture by Alanna Stang
See a variety of ways architects have achieved sustainability, whether by incorporating common-sense strategies of solar orientation, natural ventilation, and recycling of household water or by making use of cutting-edge materials and building technologies such as geothermal heat pumps and sophisticated smog filtration systems. |
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Green Living: the E magazine handbook for living lightly on the earth by the editors of E/the environmental magazine
This work grew out of a regular feature from the publication on how to lessen your impact on the environment.
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Green Places to Stay by Alastair Sawday. ISBN: 1901970779; ISBN13 – 9781901970777
This guide features destinations around the world that go the extra mile to make sure your vacation is an ecologically responsible one, including tree houses in rainforests, fair-trade tented camps, organic mountain farms and eco-chic hotels. |
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Green Roof Plants: a resource and planting guide by Edmund C. Snodgrass
You’ll find photographs and information on more than 200 species of drought-tolerant plants and cultivars, with data on moisture needs, heat tolerance, hardiness, bloom color, foliage, and height. Includes suggestions on planting, along with helpful lists organized by bloom and foliage color and plant type. |
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Green Roofs: ecological design and construction by Earth Pledge
Explore the benefits and design possibilities of environmentally conceived roof gardens, green roofs in the context of urban design and as a solution to such environmental challenges as the urban heat island effect, storm water runoff, resource use, native species, and human health. |
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Green Scissors 99: cutting wasteful and environmentally harmful spending. by Friends of the Earth
The recommendations address a broad range of threats to citizens, wildlife and natural resources in every state, offering policymakers 72 common-sense recommendations on how to cut more than $50.7 billion in spending and subsidies that hurt the environment. |
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Green Seduction: money, business, and the environment by Bill Streever
Drawn from the experience of environmental workers, a look at the battlegrounds where business engages—for better or worse--the environment.
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Green Self-Build Book: How to Design and Build your Own Eco-home by Jon Broome
This book gives an overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction techniques, and presents the information in a way that is relevant to anyone who is planning a do-it-yourself project, as well as for housing professionals, students and teachers. |
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel Esty
This book highlights practical 'how-to' suggestions that will help bankers, analysts, fund managers and investors stay on top of the “green wave.” |
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Greening your Cleaning by Deirdre Imus
Change the way you clean and keep your home wholesome and healthy.
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Grow Organic by Doug Oster.
Learn to garden cooperatively with nature using this book which contains more than 250 tips and ideas for growing flowers, veggies, lawns and more. |
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Green Wealth by Kevin Noon.
This book explains how individuals can create environmental “banks,” which are established by converting useless property into one of several types of environmentally protected land. |
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Growing Green: animal-free organic techniques by Jenny Hall
An essential guide to organic growing, perfect for absolute beginners and experienced professionals, introducing stockfree-organics and showing that animal-free cultivation produces healthier crops and fewer weeds, pests and diseases.
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Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anna Lappe
Here’s a savvy and practical guide to organic eating for urban dwellers. The author gives the reader compelling arguments for buying organic food, revealing the pesticide industry's influence on government regulations, and the extent of the pollution in our waterways and bodies. |
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Healthy House Building for the New Millennium: a design and construction guide by John Bower
Indoor air pollution and ways to solve it, from foundations, flooring, cabinets, painting, filters, to ventilation and more, with a complete set of detailed house plans. |
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Heat: how to stop the planet from burning by George Monbiot
An ambitious and far-reaching program to cut our carbon dioxide emissions to the point where the environmental scales start tipping back--away from catastrophe. He supports his proposals with a rigorous investigation into what works, what doesn't, how much it costs, and what the problems might be.
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Hell and High Water: Global Warming – The Solution and the Politics – and What we Should do by Joseph Romm.
This book serves as a wake-up call to the country. It is a critique of America’s environmental and energy policies as well as a passionate call to action. |
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The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design by Sandra Mendler
This updated edition on sustainable design includes extensive new design process information, updated case studies, and post-occupancy evaluations organized to support use of the USGBC's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System. |
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Homeowners Guide to Energy Independence: alternative power sources for the average American by Christine Woodside
An introduction and guide to accessible alternative energy sources, including solar panels, wind generators, hydrogen fuel cells, wood, hydroelectric, and more, whether you want to supplement your traditional fuel-burning furnace, or completely revamp your home.
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Homeowner’s Guide to Renewable Energy: achieving energy independence through solar, wind, biomass and hydropower by Daniel Chiras
Homeowners are scrambling to cut fuel bills and find economic alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Sort through the sometimes confusing array of renewable energy technologies and techniques, and learn ways to slash energy bills while improving sustainability.
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How Green is Your City? the SustainLane US City Rankings by Warren Karlenzig
The book is the outcome of a sustainability study involving the largest 50 cities in the US. The study measures each city’s performance in 15 areas of urban sustainability including public transit use, air and tap water quality, planning and land use, affordability, energy and climate change policy as well as local food and agriculture.
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and what we can do about it by Al Gore.
Published to tie into a documentary film of the same name, this is former Vice President Al Gore’s battle cry on what needs to be done about global warming. Gore brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world. |
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Indoor Gardening the Organic Way: How to Create a Natural and Sustaining Environment for your Houseplants by Julie Bawden-Davis
This book serves as a guide to growing houseplants organically. The author addresses a range of topics from dirt to mulch to eco-friendly ways to handle plant pests. |
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It’s Easy Being Green: a handbook for earth-friendly living by Crissy Trask
It can be easy to be an environmentalist, no matter how busy or hectic your lifestyle, using this day-to-day guide with simple, practical suggestions that anyone can do to make better choices for the environment.
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv.
In this book about the staggering divide between children and the outdoors, the author directly links the absence of nature in the lives of today's wired generation to some of the most disturbing childhood trends: the rise in obesity, attention disorders and depression. |
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Lawns Natural and Organic by Don Williamson. ISBN: 9768200146; ISBN13 – 9789768200143
This book provides comprehensive information on how to grow and maintain a chemical-free lawn. |
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The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living by Josh Dorfman.
Covering topics that range from clothing to electronic gadgetry, home decor to recreation, and gardening to financial investment, the author lets us know which trends to watch and which eco-conscious products, cars, toothbrushes, cell phones and pet accessories to buy. |
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Let it Rot! : The gardener’s guide to composting by Stu Campbell
The original edition helped start the composting movement and taught gardeners everywhere how to recycle waste materials to create useful, soil-nourishing compost. This updated edition features instructions for starting and maintaining a composting system, building compost bins, barrels, and tumblers, and ways to use compost.
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The Little Green Handbook: Seven Trends Shaping the Future of our Planet by Ron Nielsen
This is a unique reference that illustrates the most important global developments facing us today, explains them, and suggests ideas for positive change. |
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Living Green: a practical guide to simple sustainability by Greg Horn
From climate change, to personal health, to simply living on the planet, this book helps direct positive action to improve both personal health and the health of the environment and practical ways to help change the world.
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Making Kind Choices: everyday ways to enhance your life through earth and animal-friendly living by Ingrid Newkirk
This practical and accessible handbook is loaded with resources for all products mentioned, and fabulous options that will not only enhance readers' lives, but those of their neighbors, their communities, animals, and the earth itself. |
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Micro Eco-Farming: prospering from backyard to small acreage in partnership with the earth by Barbara Berst Adams
Anyone interested in microfarming, food health, the environment, or the future of agriculture will learn from the success stories and lessons detailed in this book.
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National Green Pages by Co-op America
This directory connects you to socially and environmental responsible businesses that provide green products and services. |
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Natural Architecture by Alessandro Rocca.
The artists and architects highlighted in this book have transformed the act of building into an art form capable of sparking new relationships with nature, landscape, and the environment. Far from basic or primitive, these creations are built from humble elements-twigs, pebbles, straw-found at the site. |
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Nature Babies: Natural Knits and Organic Crafts for Moms, Babies, and a Better World by Tara Manning.
This book presents a collection of more than 30 handcrafts projects (knitting, felting and sewing) using organic ingredients. |
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The Natural House: a complete guide to healthy, energy-efficient, environmental homes by Daniel D. Chiras
This sourcebook examines the options for building a house that is economical, energy-efficient, nontoxic, kind to the environment, and pleasurable to live in. Learn the pros and cons of 14 natural building methods, including straw bale, rammed earth, cob, cordwood, adobe, earthbags, papercrete, earthships, and more.
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Natural Choice Directory of Puget Sound
This annual directory is the healthy “Yellow Pages” that promotes goods, services, and businesses for a health conscious and environmentally sustainable lifestyle for the Puget Sound area. |
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Naturally Clean: the Seventh Generation guide to safe & healthy, non-toxic cleaning by Jeffrey Hollender
Learn the dangers of traditional cleaners and how the chemicals found in almost every home are known or likely to cause serious health problems. This easy-to-understand volume discusses basic household chemistry, toxicity and toxic exposure, and the difference between natural, organic, and synthetic chemicals. A room-by-room guide features comprehensive product selection tips for more than 300 natural and traditional cleaners.
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Natural Remodeling for the Not-so-Green House: Bringing your Home into Harmony with Nature by Carol Venolia.
You don't have to build from scratch to live in a house that's good for you and the earth. This unique guide teaches the basics of ecological renovation, planning your project, choosing materials, and making your home more energy-efficient. |
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Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American Life by Brain Black.
The author of this book, which is part of the Daily Life through History series, contends that nature and the environment remain central to people’s daily life. |
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New Ecological Home: the complete guide to green building options by Daniel D. Chiras
This book provides an overview of green building techniques, materials, products, and technologies that are either currently available or will be in the near future, with a wealth of up-to-date, practical information for home buyers, owner-builders, and anyone interested in building for a sustainable future.
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New Sustainable Homes: designs for healthy living by James Grayson Trulove
Explore a wide range of projects where the architect and client have made a conscientious effort to incorporate sustainability into the design and construction materials, creating homes that are less toxic to live in, cheaper to operate, and often give back to the environment rather than taking away. These homes are great looking, highly livable, and increase in value more quickly than more conventional houses because they’re cheaper to operate.
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The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: simple measures to benefit you and the place you live by Nell Newman with Joseph D’Agnese
Learn to do what is within reach – how and why living a more environmentally conscious life benefits your health, wealth, and immediate community.
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New Village Green: Living Light, Living Local, Living Large by Stephen Morris.
This book gathers some of the best ideas and brightest voices of the green community and helps springboard the green movement into the future by acknowledging its roots. |
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change by Dinyar Godrej
This fully revised and updated book looks at the latest findings, explores the options and explains why cutting energy use and improve energy efficiency are better than carbon emissions trading and nuclear power to solve climate change. |
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Nothing’s too Small to Make a Difference: simple things you can do to change your life & the world around you by Wanda Urbanska
This companion volume to the PBS series, "Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska” focuses on environmental stewardship, thoughtful consumption, financial responsibility, and building community to emphasize that every positive change, no matter how modest, has an impact. |
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The Not so Big House Book by Sarah Susank
Smaller houses make good sense; make higher quality more affordable, and tread more lightly on the earth. The strategy is to favor quality of design over quantity of space for people with big dreams and not so big budgets, creating houses where each room is used every day. |
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Nuclear Power is not the Answer by Helen Caldicott.
The author argues that nuclear power actually contributes to global warming, and the potential for a catastrophic accident or a terrorist attack far outweighs any benefit. |
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Ocean-friendly Cuisine: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the World’s Finest Chefs by James Fraioli.
A noted marine expert and author introduces 50 delectable and ethical "best choice" sea foods that can be eaten with a clean conscience and culinary delight using 100 recipes from the world's finest chefs. |
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Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-free Alternatives for Independent Brides by Ariel Stallings
This book serves as an inspiration for those who are interested in having a vegan buffet, avoiding bouquet tossing, doing away with the elitist guest list and being a control freak without becoming a Bridezilla. Filled with sidebars, tips, tricks and planner encouragement this book sees couples through the wedding process. |
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Off the Grid Homes: case studies for sustainable living by Lori Ryker
We are pouring thousands of dollars into running our homes each year, which, in addition to depleting our pocketbooks, wreaks havoc on the environment. Using renewable energy from photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, solar water heaters, and geothermal systems, houses can be entirely self-sustaining or tied to municipal energy sources while still conserving resources. |
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Off the Grid: modern homes and alternative energy by Lori Ryker
This book confronts the ecological and cultural problems associated with the way we get and use energy, and explains how it is possible to live in a beautifully designed home using much less--no matter where your home is located. |
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Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
This book seeks to change the way we view the ecology of eating. Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us, whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed, the author develops a portrait of the American way of eating. |
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Organic Cook’s Bible: how to select and cook the best ingredients on the market by Jeff Cox
Enjoy the benefits of organic foods, and "go organic" by getting to "know organic." Learn the what, where, when, how, and why of choosing and using more than 150 types of organic foods, 900 top varieties of organic produce plus a useful list of organic food suppliers and organizations.
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Organic Housekeeping: in which the non-toxic avenger shows you how to improve your health and that of your family while you save time, money and perhaps your sanity by Ellen Sandbeck
This comprehensive guide covers every aspect of creating and maintaining a nontoxic, hypoallergenic home that is clean and safe using affordable products.
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Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew by Samuel Formartz. ISBN: 0151011303; ISBN13 – 9780151011308
The author traces organic food back to its anti-industrial origins more than a century ago. |
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Organic Kitchen Garden by Juliet Roberts. ISBN: 1840913940
This book offers a complete guide to planning, planting and caring for your own vegetable patch. |
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Organic Lawn Care Manual: a natural, low-maintenance system for a beautiful, safe lawn by Paul Tukey
Natural lawn care through this step by step guide to a healthy, organic lawn--everything you’ll need to keep your lawn off drugs and make it an inviting area for the whole family.
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Organic Weddings: Balancing Ecology, Style and Tradition by Michelle Kozin
This book is for couples who want their wedding celebrations to reflect their environmental and social awareness by balancing ecology, style and tradition against the excessive and synthetic wedding industry machine. |

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Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis & Clark by Daniel Botkin
By retracing the steps of Lewis and Clark, the author reveals what the western landscape actually looked like and how much it's been changed by modern civilization and technology. |
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Outdoors Online: The Internet Guide to Everything Wild & Green by Erika Dillman
This book leads lovers of the outdoors to the best Web resources available. |
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Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls by Nigel Dunnett
Learn practical techniques for planting on roofs and walls. See how to modify roofs to bear the weight of vegetation, including options for drainage layers and growing media, and plants suitable for different climates and environments.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism by Christopher C. Horner
The author considers the issue of global warming as the ideal scare campaign for those who are doing all they can to secure strict control over society, business and the minutest details of individual life. He argues that it's time to stand up to the environmentalist industry and insist that human beings are not the enemy. |
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Power with Nature: Solar and Wind Energy Demystified by Rex Ewing
Is renewable energy for you? Homeowners can learn how to capture free energy from the sun, wind and water to create electricity for their off-grid or grid-tied home. |
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Practical Organic Gardener: Everything you Need to Know with More than 200 Illustrations by Brenda Little
This book includes step-by-step instructions on how to care for your organic garden and tips for effective companion planting. |
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Prescriptions for a Healthy House: a practical guide for architects, builders, & homeowners by Paula Baker-Laporte
Combat sick building syndrome by designing better interior and exterior space, and selecting construction materials that enhance and promote physical well-being. Learn why standard building practices are not healthful, what to do differently, and how to obtain alternative materials and expertise.
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Rain Gardens: managing rainwater sustainably in the garden and designed landscape by Nigel Dunnett
Comprehensive guide to capture, channel, divert and make the most of the rain and snow that fall on your property. Enhance outdoor spaces and minimize the damaging effects of drought, stormwater runoff, and other environmental challenges. This comprehensive guide to water management techniques is filled with practical solutions for small and large-scale projects.
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Radical Simplicity: small footprints on a finite earth by Jim Merkel
This how-to guide will point you towards a personal sustainability goal, and show you how to lower your footprint to be more equitable among all people, species, and generations. Using three tools -- including steps from Your Money or Your Life and techniques from Our Ecological Footprint -- it enables you to customize your own journey to sustainability. |
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Raising Baby Green: The Earth-friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Baby Care by Alan Greene
The author, a leading voice in the green baby movement, advises parents on making healthy green choices for pregnancy, childbirth and baby care – from feeding babies the best food available to using medicines wisely. |
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The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Costal Cities by Mike Tidwell.
A prophetic journalist predicts that due to global warming, ocean levels will rise by three feet in the coming decades, and hurricanes will grow more powerful, endangering coastal populations not only in North America but throughout the world. |
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Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock.
James Lovelock, founder of Gaia Theory, tells us that the entire Earth as a living super organism is sick. This book is a call to action to address a major threat to our collective future. |
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Recycle! : make your own eco-friendly and creative designs - over 60 projects for your home and garden by Moira Hankinson
Experiment with 60 easy-to-follow projects for using recycled materials in home and garden, along with advice on safety, where to locate relevant waste materials, and techniques of how to prepare and preserve them.
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The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson
This book is a complete, unbiased guide to one of the most pressing problems facing humanity. It provides current as well as background information on the subject of climate change, and includes lifestyle advice and tips for consumers who want to make a difference in tomorrow's climate.
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The Rough Guide to Shopping with a Conscience by Duncan Clark
Sweatshops, fair trade, climate change, ethical investment, organic food… shopping can sometimes feel like a moral minefield. Which companies and products should we support or avoid? And which claims can we trust? This book is the essential handbook for responsible consumers.
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Sacred Balance: rediscovering our place in nature by David Suzuki
Concrete suggestions for how we can meet our basic needs and create an ecologically sustainable, fulfilling and just way of life, offering the seeds of a new direction for us all to rediscover our place in nature and live in balance with our surroundings.
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Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political & Environmental Change by Clea Danaan.
Learn how to plan and plant your garden, create compost, save seeds, conserve water, connect with garden goddesses and incorporate planetary energy in your garden. |
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Safe Trip to Eden: 10 Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown by David Steinman.
The author tackles the issues surrounding climate change. He provides clear, simple steps we can all take to make more responsible environmental choices in our everyday lives, from the food we put on our tables to the products we use in our homes. |
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Saving Puget Sound: a conservation strategy for the 21st century by John Lombard
A practical proposal to conserve the Puget Sound region's most important ecosystems in the face of long-term population growth, providing both a vision for conservation and a detailed review of the political and legal issues at the core of any practical strategy.
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Silence of the Songbirds: how we are losing the world’s songbirds and what we can do to save them by Bridget Stutchbury
An ecological field trip to the lives of songbirds and the major threats they face. Each of us can help save birds through our daily activities: buying paper and wood products from sustainable forests, drinking shade-grown coffee, avoiding pesticides in our food, lawns and gardens, keeping our cats indoors, and more. Ultimately, we protect ourselves and our children by taking steps to save songbirds and the environment. |
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Simply Green Giving: Create Beautiful Gift Wrapping, Tags, and Handmade Teasures from Everyday Materials by Danny Seo
The book has 50 quick and simple projects to create beautiful handmade treasures and gifts for any occasion. |
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Simply Green Parties: Simple and Resourceful Ideas for Throwing the Perfect Celebration, Event or Get-together by Danny Seo
The author presents simple and gorgeous eco-friendly ideas for throwing the perfect party. Included are 50 quick and simple projects with themes such as Dinner Under the Stars, Baby Shower, Saturday Dinner Party, Housewarming, Beach Party and Birthday Party. |
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Simply Organic: A Cookbook for Sustainable, Seasonal, and Local Ingredients by Jesse Cool.
With 150 enticing recipes, the author encourages home cooks to embrace organics as a lifestyle rather than a fad. |
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A Slice of Organic Life by Sheherazade Goldsmith
Each chapter of this book provides simple ideas and examples of how you can lessen your impact on the world and improve your quality of life. Learn how to grow salad greens on a windowsill or raise Rhode Island Reds for farm fresh eggs. |
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Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles : amusing & useful techniques for nontoxic housekeeping & gardening by Ellen Sandbeck
All-natural alternatives are just as easy and effective when it comes to exiling odors and banishing bugs, and that they are wickedly fun. This book reveals great tricks to keep your home will be clean, green and pest-free from bedroom to bathroom, garden to lawn. |
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The Solution is You! : an activist’s guide by Laurie David
Learn to turn headlines into action by following activist Laurie David's own grassroots efforts to sound the alarm and show how and why everyone, young and old, must get involved. |
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State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future
This is the latest annual report by the Worldwatch Institute on progress toward a sustainable society. |
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Storm World: hurricanes, politics, and the battle over global warming by Chris Mooney
This author jumps into the debate about whether global warming is increasing the ferocity of hurricanes. The book follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of the argument through the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified the scientific dispute. |
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The Suicidal Planet: how to prevent global climate catastrophe by Mayer Hillman
Climate change is the single biggest problem that humankind has ever had to face. Learn the real issues of climate change: what role technology can play, how you and your community can make changes, and what governments must do now to protect our planet for future generations.
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Sustainable Environments by Yenna Chan
Explore architectural details in distinctive, sustainable residential spaces, including cooling or shading devices, building techniques that create minimal impact on the land, active systems, and the use of new sustainable, salvaged or recyclable materials. |
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Sustainable Living: 25 international examples by Dominique Gauzin-Muller
A technically detailed documentation of 25 sustainable residential structures, both in the high-tech and low-tech domain, which differ greatly in size and in the materials used. The examples are chosen from 18 countries on five continents and located both in rural and urban areas.
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Sustainable Living for Dummies by Michael Grosvenor
Easy and fun ways to help protect the environment through practical, everyday steps anyone can take to help conserve wild spaces and arable land, avoid releasing toxic substances into the environment, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The book offers simple ways to shop, work and travel that do less damage to the Earth.
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Sustainable Residential Development: Planning and Design for Green Neighborhoods by Avi Friedman.
This book provides examples for planning and designing green communities that successfully balance social, economic and environmental needs. The author explains the principles of green building and how to apply them to residential development. |
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Teaching Green: the elementary years: hands-on learning in grades K-5 edited by Tim Grant
This book offers 50 kid-tested teaching strategies for anyone working with young people in grades kindergarten to five, whether in schools or non-formal education settings. It promotes interdisciplinary hands-on learning about natural systems and fosters critical thinking about environmental issues, both local and global, with background information and instructions for practical projects and activities.
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Ten Shades of Green: architecture and the natural world by Peter Buchanan
Contemporary buildings are major contributors to the environmental crisis. Discover ten buildings that illustrate how environmental responsibility promises to reinvigorate contemporary architecture and show that sustainability is both good for the planet, and offer architects new creative and innovative opportunities.
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This Moment on Earth: Today’s Environmentalists and their Vision for the Future by John Kerry.
This book, by Senator John Kerry and his wife, looks at ways in which individuals and organizations are working to change the environment for the better. |
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To Buy or Not to Buy Organic: What you Need to Know to Choose the Healthiest, Safest, Most Earth-friendly Food by Cindy Burke
Seattle-based food journalist and former professional chef Cindy Burke suggests the healthiest, safest, most earth-friendly food, as you make your way through the supermarket, local farmer’s market or natural food store, |
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Toxic Bedrooms: your guide to a safe night’s sleep by Walter Bader
Your bedroom should be a safe haven, but unfortunately research is revealing that the bedroom may be one of the most toxic places in the home. Learn how to make your entire bedroom—from the walls to the floors to the closets—toxin free.
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True Green: 100 everyday ways you can contribute to a healthier planet by Kim McKay
Whether you live in a city apartment, a suburban house, or a country farm, these simple, straightforward methods produce positive effects not just on our planet but on your pocketbook, too, exploring six key areas where small changes can make a big difference: In the Home; In the Garden; At Work; Shopping; Travel; and In the Community.
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Truth about Organic Gardening: Benefits, Drawbacks, and the Bottom Line by Jeff Gillman
Although gardeners tend to assume that any organic product is automatically safe for humans and beneficial to the environment, this book points out the exceptions to the rule. |
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Unbowed: a memoir by Wangari Muta Maathai
The author established the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa, helping to restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages. Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of her contribution to sustainable development, human rights, and peace. |
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Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and what they can Tell us about our Future by Peter Ward
More than 200 million years ago, the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90 percent of all species and nearly 97 percent of all living things. The author contends that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change– the same global warming that we experience today. |
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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years by S. Fred Singer
Learn about the compelling concept that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely due to a natural cycle. The book explains why global warming is not very dangerous and why we are unable to stop it from happening. |
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The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide for a Better, Kinder, Healthier World by Leslie Garrett.
Each chapter in this book reveals how a particular sector of the economy impacts the planet and its people. “The Buy Line,” a section at the end of each chapter clearly and succinctly explains what items to put on one's shopping list. |
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Wake up and Smell the Planet: The Nonpompous, Nonpreachy Grist Guide to Greening your Day by Brangien Davis.
This book focuses on little choices throughout the day that you can make to improve the planet, from the moment you get up in the morning to until you go to bed at night. |
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Water, Use Less – Save More: 100 Water-Saving Tips for the Home by Jon Clift
This book includes 100 simple and effective tips for conserving water in your home and garden and is packed with practical ideas for your kitchen, bath, landscaping and other watering chores. |
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The Weather Makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth by Tim Flannery
Along with a history of how climate change has shaped our planet's evolution, the author offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals, from investing in renewable power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal energy, to offering an action plan with steps each and every one of us can take right now to reduce deadly CO2 emissions by 70%. |
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When the Rivers Run Dry: water, the defining crisis of the twenty-first century by Fred Pearce
The dire truth about the world’s rivers including the Indus River in Pakistan, the Colorado River in the U.S. and the Yellow and Yangzte rivers in China. The growing worldwide water shortage demands greater efficiency and a new water ethic based on managing the water cycle for maximum social benefit. |
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Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm and Business by Paul Gipe
This book focuses on wind power - a widely available, renewable energy source that can be used for everything from small remote applications to sophisticated wind power plants. |
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Worldchanging: a user’s guide for the 21st century edited by Alex Steffen
Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around, this text is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. From eco-building to responsible shopping, political action to humanitarian relief, this work puts the power to solve problems into the readers' hands. |
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The World Tomorrow: Scenarios of Global Catastrophe by Yannick Monget
This author explores the actual threats we face on the brink of a global climate change and depicts six potential scenarios that he believes may come to fruition. |
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The World Without Us by Allen Weisman
Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists and religious leaders, the author illustrates what the planet might be like today, if humans did not drastically change the Earth. |
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XS: Small Structures, Green Architecture by Phyllis Richardson.
This book features contemporary solutions to two of today's most challenging problems: how to conserve space and how to preserve the environment. Find examples of 40 houses that combine aesthetic beauty with ecological sensitivity. |
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Your Green Home: a guide to planning a healthy, environmental friendly new home by Alex Wilson
Whether you are working with an architect or builder, or serving as your own general contractor, this book answers most of the big-picture questions about how your environmentally-friendly home is designed and built for the results you want.
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Your Naturally Healthy Home: stylish, safe, simple by Allan Berman
An experienced architect provides homeowners with up-to-date information on the latest earth-friendly materials and techniques for redecorating or remodeling with this easy-to-use guide, including comparison charts on products. |